White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Author:Don DeLillo

ISBN 13:9780140283303

ISBN 10:140283307

Edition:N/A

Publisher:Penguin Books

Publication Date:1999-06-01

Format:Paperback

Pages:320

List Price:$16.00

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This is the story of a college professor and his family whose small Midwestern town is evacuated after an industrial accident. . . . Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill.This is an America where no one is responsible or in control; all are receptors, receivers of stimuli, consumers. Some join Simuvac, which signs up local school children as volunteer victims in simulated evacuations. Gladney's wife, Babette, a low-key and adaptable faculty wife who reads tabloids to the blind and teaches senior citizens' classes in posture, is distinguished by her forgetfulness and her preoccupation with death.